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Political party that believed
in the common people, no
government aid for
business, and a pro-French
foreign policy.
Former vice-president,
killer of Alexander
Hamilton, and plotter
of secessionist
schemes.
Political organizations, not
envisioned in the Constitution,
and considered dangerous to
national unity by most of the
Founders, including George
Washington.
A major new political innovation that emerged in
the Revolutionary era was the
A)Shifting of power from the legislative to the
executive branch of government.
B)Idea of a written constitution drafted by a
convention and ratified by direct vote of the
people.
C)Extension of voting rights to indentured
servants.
D)Direct election of judges by the people.
American ship fired on
by the British in 1807,
nearly leading to war
between the two
countries.
Despite the Revolution’s emphasis on human rights and
equality, the Founding Fathers failed to abolish slavery
because
A) They feared black rebellion if slavery were removed.
B) Of their fear that a fight over slaver would destroy
fragile national unity.
C) Almost none of them believed that slavery was
wrong.
D)Many of them felt guilty about interracial sexual
liasons with their slaves.
Sugar-rich island where
Toussaint L’Ouverture’s
slave rebellion disrupted
Napoleon’s dreams of a
vast New World empire.
The most revolutionary development in the critical
election of 1800 turned out to be
a) Jefferson’s radical proposals for overturning the
existing political system.
b) The peaceful transition of power from one political
party to its opponent.
c) The electoral stalemate between Jefferson and his
running mate, Burr.
d) The massive grass-roots mobilization of voters by
the Democratic-Republican party.
The territory north of the
Ohio River and east of the
Mississippi River that came
to be governed by the
Confederation’s acts of
1785 and 1787.
Hamilton’s first financial policies were intended to
A) Finance the new government through the sale
of western lands.
B) Fund the national debt and have the federal
government assume the debts owed by the
states.
C) Insure that low federal taxes would spur
economic growth.
D) Guarantee that the dollar would become a
sound and respected international currency.
Law passed by Federalists
during the undeclared French
war that made it a criminal
offense to criticize or defame
government officials, including
the president.
Jefferson’s greatest concern about purchasing Louisiana
was
A) Whether it was in America’s best interest to acquire
such a vast territory.
B) Whether the cost was excessive for his frugal, smallgovernment philosophy.
C) How to defend and govern the territory once it was
part of the United States.
D) Whether the purchase was permissible under the
Constitution
Supreme Court ruling
that established the
right of the Supreme
Court to declare laws
unconstitutional.
The Constitutional
compromise between North
and South that resulted in
each slave being counted as 60
percent of a free person for
purposes of representation in
Congress.
Jefferson’s policy of
forbidding the
shipment of any goods
in or out of the United
States.
The Great Compromise agreed to at the Constitutional
Convention, provided that
A) There would be separation of powers between the
executive and legislative branches of government.
B) The large states would be taxed on the basis of
population and the small states on the basis of territory.
C) There would be representation by population in the
House of Representatives but equal representation of all
states in the Senate.
D) Slavery would continue to be permitted in the South but
not in the North
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided that
A) The states should retain permanent control of
their western lands.
B) Money from the sale of western lands should
be used to promote manufacturing.
C) After sufficient population growth, western
territories could be organized and then join the
union as states.
D) The Old Northwest states should have
permanent access to the Great Lakes’ water.
Besides George Washington, the most influential
delegates to the Constitutional Convention were
A) John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and John Hancock
B) John Adams, Abigail Adams, and Gouverneur
Morris
C) Roger Sherman, James Madison, and Alexander
Hamilton
D) Daniel Shays, Richard Henry Lee, and John
Marshall
Shays’ Rebellion contributed greatly to the movement
for a new constitution by
A) Raising the fear of anarchy and disorder among
wealthy conservatives.
B) Raising the prospect of British or French
interference in American domestic affairs.
C) Showing that state legislatures could effectively
resist the demands of radical farmers.
D) Revealing that Revolutionary War veterans like
Shays wanted a more powerful federal government.
Young New Yorker who
argued eloquently for the
Constitution even though
he favored an even
stronger central
government.
Although greatly weakened after Jefferson’s election,
the Federalist party’s philosophy continued to have
great influence through
A) The propaganda efforts of Federalist agitators.
B) The Federalist control of the Senate.
C) The Federalist Supreme Court rulings of John
Marshall.
D) Federalist teachers and textbooks in the public
schools.
As list of guarantees that
federalists promised to
add to the Constitution
in order to win
ratification.
The United States became involved in an
undeclared war with France in 1797 because of
A) Fierce American opposition to Jay’s Treaty.
B) President Adams’ sympathy with Britain and
hostility to Revolutionary France.
C) American anger at attempted French bribery of
American diplomats in the XYZ Affair.
D) France’s refusal to sell New Orleans and
Louisiana
A protest by poor
western farmers that
was firmly suppressed by
Washington and
Hamilton’s army.
Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican
Party essentially believed that the whole future of
American society rested on an essential
foundation of
A) Wealthy planters and merchants
B) International trade and westward expansion
C) Free, white, educated, small landowning
farmers
D) Evangelical Protestants and learned scientists
and technicians.
The Federalists essentially believed that
A) The federal government should provide no
special aid to private business.
B) The common people could, if educated,
participate in government affairs.
C) The United States should have a powerful
central government controlled by the wealthy
and well educated.
D) The United States should isolate itself from
Europe and turn toward westward expansion.
Besides creating a pan-Indian military alliance against
white expansion, Tecumseh and the Prophet urged
American Indians to
A) Resist the whites’ culture and alcohol and revive
traditional Indian cultures.
B) Demonstrate their legal ownership of the lands that
whites were intruding upon.
C) Declare independence and form an alliance with
Spain.
D) Abandon their tribes and develop a single Indian
language and government.
The idea that
American women had
a special responsibility
to cultivate civic virtue
in their children.
Federally chartered
financial institution set up
by Alexander Hamilton and
vehemently opposed by
Thomas Jefferson.
Which of the following was NOT among the
consequences of the Louisiana Purchase?
A) The geographical and scientific discoveries of the
Lewis and Clark expedition.
B) The precedent of incorporating foreign territory and
populations into the United States through peaceful
purchase.
C) The opportunity of westward expansion and growth
of the United States as a great power.
D) The weakening of the power of the executive
branch in foreign affairs.
A masterly series of essays
anonymously published by
Jay, Madison, and Hamilton
defending the Constitution
to the public.
Declaration by President
Washington in 1793 that
announced America’s policy
with respect to the French
Revolutionary Wars between
Britain and France.
Among the important social changes brought
about by the American Revolution was
A)The abolition of slavery everywhere except
in South Carolina and Georgia
B)A strong movement toward equality of
property
C)Full equality and voting rights for women
D)The increasing separation of church and
state
Group that failed to block
the strong central
government they feared
but did force the promise
of a guarantee of individual
liberties.
The official controversially
included in the new
Constitution who would be
commander-in-chief of the
armed forces, appoint judges
and other officials, and have
the power to veto legislation.
The first American political parties developed primarily
because of
A) The Founders’ belief that organized political opposition
was a necessary part of good government.
B) The antifederalists’ continuing hostility to the legitimacy
of the federal Constitution.
C) Patriotic opposition to foreign intervention in American
domestic affairs.
D) The opposition of Thomas Jefferson and his followers to
Hamilton’s financial policies and enhancement of federal
government policies.
Jefferson was forced to reverse his strong opposition to
maintaining any substantial American military because
of
a) Growing French intervention in Haiti and Louisiana
b) The threat to America posed by the British-French
wars.
c) The charge by his Federalist opponents that his
dislike of the military was unpatriotic.
d) The plunder and blackmailing of American shipping
by North African states.
The body of advisers to the
president, not mentioned in
the Constitution, that George
Washington established as an
important part of the new
federal government.
The principle, established
by Chief Justice John
Marshall in a famous case,
that the Supreme Court can
declare laws
unconstitutional.
The greatest weakness of the government under
the Articles of Confederation was that
A) It was unable to deal with the issue of western
lands.
B) It was still too subservient to America’s ally,
France.
C) It had no power to establish relations with
foreign governments.
D) It had no power to regulate commerce or
collect taxes from the sovereign states.
Militantly nationalistic
western congressmen
eager for hostilities
with the Indians,
Canadians, and British.
The former federalist
Virginian who was
personally responsible for
writing the Bill of Rights.
Answer the following
question in writing as
accurately and
completely as possible.
You have two minutes.
How does a bastard, orphan,
son of a whore and a
Scotsman, dropped in the
middle of a forgotten spot in
the Caribbean by Providence
impoverished, in squalor, grow
up to be a hero and a scholar?
The ten-dollar founding father
without a father got a lot
farther, by working a lot
harder, by being a lot smarter,
by being a self-starter. (By
fourteen, they placed him in
charge of a trading charter.)